On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 22:58:31 -0600 Eric Christopherson <eric@...>
writes:
>Here's a chart of vowel changes in Vulgar Latin (IIRC):
>short or long a > /a/
>short e or ae > /E/ (later diphthongized to /'i.e/>/je/)
>long e or oe or short i > /e/
>long i > /i/
>short o > /O/
>long o or short u > /o/
>long u > /u/
So originally it was just short and long versions of /a e i o u/ ? What
did the {ae} and {oe} sound like, originally?
>Y seemed to work the same as I, but I don't know if there was a
>difference between short and long Y as there was between short and
>long I.
>AE and OE also caused a preceding C or G to palatalize.
>> I'm really not sure
>> where Z entered in, although I'm pretty sure it wasn't originally in
>> Latin.
>No, it was borrowed from Greek for the sound of zeta in Greek words.
>Latin originally had no /z/, like PIE. I believe Z was /dz/.
Okay, so then i guess there won't be a /z/ >> /Z/ shift. Like i said in
the other message, i'll add a /Z/ into the soundshifts coming from /s/.
>> > Also, in order to test out this system, i'd like to know how to
>say
>> > "Judean" in Latin, so that i can mutate it into the name of the
>conlang
>> > itself.
>>
>> Well, "of the Jews" was "Iudaeorum", so "Iudaeus/Iudaea" (Jew,
>Judean)
>> would be what you're looking for.
>
-Stephen (Steg)
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